Adam's Apples

The originator of this apple, Joel LaValley of Amnicon Apples , suspects it is a seedling of Red Delicious ("but much better"). It has a good bit of the Red D conical taper, and some ribbing. The streaky red color, where it covers the green-yellow, is purer than Delicious's purple-tinged hue, and there are many light tan lenticel dots prominent in the blush. My samples are small and medium-sized. Now let's see about that "much better" part.

Crabapples gather around a lone McIntosh. It's been crabby here!  Above, left to right: AAX 11 , Hewe's Crab (review forthcoming), and the delightful Chestnut Crabapple disport themselves around a single McIntosh (for scale).

This is an "experimental" crabapple (thus the "X") under development by Amnicon Apples  ("AA"). Each experiment is about an inch tall with streaky red blush over a pale yellow. The riot of streak and color wash masks any lenticel dots. This crabapple has a satin rather than glossy finish, and noticeable ribbing.

I listen to names. "Kinderkrisp," for example, suggests a "kid-sized" entry into Honeycrisp space . These attractive apples are appropriately small, maybe an inch and a half tall (and about an inch wider than that). The one shown is the tallest at 1-3/4 inches, and the least oblate.

King McIntosh makes his debut at the Arlington, Massachusetts, farmers market last Wednesday. ...the Macs arrive.

Fate, in the form of a care package from Indiana, brought these two tiny August apples to me at the same time last month. And, they are kind of similar.

Perhaps by design, the name of this apple evokes the iconic Golden Delicious , which matures much later. Earligold falls between medium and large, a very light spring green. As the photo shows, there is not so much a blush as a lightening of the green to yellow, but it includes some faint peach accents. Lenticels show as darker green dots. There is quite a bit of give in the squeeze.